Worthless and Weak

Well, last night I forgot to update. I'm terribly terribly sorry. It will probably happen again, but not for a while. Anyway, on to the bloggery.

What do the following things have in common? AM/FM radio, heavier than air flight, the Panama canal, wristwatches, tea bags, Ice Cream Cones, the World Series, the states, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Alaska, and Hawaii, and Dick Clark? Give up? Well, how about this. What do these things have in common? Space flight, color television, the British invasion, the States of Alaska and Hawaii, the Microwave, the Los Angelos Dodgers and the San Fransico Giants? Give up? The first list were things that aren't as old as Strom Thurmond. The second list are things that all happened after he became a Senator.

So today, in honor of his 100th birthday, I will say a few things about Strom Thurmond. He is the only person to EVER win a senate race with a write in campaign. He is one of the few people to recieve electoral votes in the Presidential race as a third party canidate. He served in three branches of government. He served in both the Pacific and European front in the second world war. When he first ran for public offices, he sometimes campaigned with civil war veterans. He was in the Senate for two years when the current President's grandfather was elected to the Senate. He holds the record for the longest filibuster ever, at over 24 hours. He taught himself law at night while working as a school superintendant in the day. Despite having no law school training, he tied for the highest score in the bar exam. And this coming July, he is going to become for the first time, a grandfather. He won the State of South Carolina in some election a total of ten times. He married a 21 when he was in his forties, (she sadly died 13 years later) and later married a 22 year old former Miss America when he was in his upper sixties. He ran as a dixie-crat, a democrat, and a Republican. He met 12 Presidents.

So, here's to Mr Thurmond. You have to respect him, if you're a conservative republican. If you're a liberal democrat, you might just hate him. Now, you don't have to respect him, but I'm betting that when you're in your sixties, you won't be able to get a 22 year old Miss America. So here's to the next hundred years, Senator. Maybe he'll run for President again, who knows.

Anyway, I think that his health has taken a turn for the worse in these past few years, but I think that he might still live a while. Well, I guess I'll do this again in 100 years. Cheers!